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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-10-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-10-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-10-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-10-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-10-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:Realistic Metaphysics and the Materialist Conception of History
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion series with Shane Mage (4 more weeks)\nplease note that the class is meeting from 6 pm to 8 pm \n“This cosmos\, the same for all\, was not made by any of gods or men. It always has been\, is\, and will be\, an ever-living fire kindling in measures and going out in measures” (Herakleitos of Ephesus\, fr. 29 [ed. Wheelwright]) \nThis group will meet as follows: October 21\, 28\, November 4\, 11 and 25.There will not be a session on November 18 as there is a MEP event that evening. \nIt can scarcely be doubted that the human civilization\, pervasively capitalist\, has entered a period of absolute crisis in the most literal sense: a condition that\, if not resolved by a radical return to survivability\, will quickly result in its death.  Of course\, Marxists and many other radicals had long seen the capitalist system (the present form of class society) as crisis-prone\, marked in its processes over centuries by an increasingly severe succession of wars and economic collapses. But the system had recovered from each crisis and resumed\, ever more powerfully\, its seeming industrial growth. The present crisis is different. Its dominant feature\, global heating (among symptoms of which are the COVID19 pandemic and the growing threat of atomic holocaust) is evidently integral to capitalist industrial growth . However\, in the Marxian view\, industrial growth is itself the manifestation of something much deeper: the contradictory form of productive labor and technological development in class society. “The growth of productive forces\,” is seen as the driving force in the evolution of humanity itself. As such\, it far transcends the few centuries of worldwide capitalism and comprises the whole history of the human species. We are\, declared Marx in an early text\, “species beings.” This should be taken to signify that while we\, like all animals\, carry our species history in our bodies and subconscious minds\, we also\, in our evolutionarily acquired capacity for structured symbolic communication\, preserve (and even can recover by proper research) important parts of that history in our explicit memories. Therefore the historical crisis of human society is necessarily and simultaneously the crisis of human consciousness. \nMarxists have always recognized the centrality of consciousness to the communist project. But marxism’s central preoccupation has been that of *class* consciousness. Marx spoke of the working class’s need to transform itself from a class *in itself* (en sich) into a class *for itself* (für sich). After two decades of revolutionary defeats and counter-revolutionary triumphs Trotsky described the situation as “the crisis of proletarian leadership.” \nBut these were prescriptions\, now plainly further from realization than ever. In describing the proletariat as the “universal class\,” Marx projected that by establishing its dictatorship (ie.\, radical democracy) in the proximate interest of all its members\, the proletariat begins the human historical project of complete transcendence of class society. The present crisis\, however\, demands that this concept of “universal” be deepened and enriched. The politics based on consciousness of proximate material interest must give way to the politics of a *planetary* consciousness. The final line of our anthem\, “l’Internationale sera le genre humain\,”  should now be taken literally. \nIf you and I are to be effective agents in the development of that consciousness we should be able to offer radical answers\, even though necessarily tentative and incomplete ones\, to two fundamental questions: How Did We Get Here? And (what Immanuel Kant considered perhaps the most important of questions): What Can We Hope For? \nThese are basic philosophical questions\, and to deal with them demands an adequate metaphysical basis\, an account developing from fundamental assumptions underlying cognition of our world\, its history\, its reality\, its prospects. Marxisms have approached this in terms of two words: “dialectics” and “materialism\,” but these terms are almost always used vaguely or–worse—polemically. Their application\, the materialist conception of history\, should be understood in terms of the long philosophical tradition starting in ancient Greece\, with the seemingly contradictory but actually complementary dialectics of Herakleitos (change) and Plato (structure)—the tradition whose varying protagonists include Plotinus\, Spinoza\, Diderot\, Hegel\, Marx\, and Whitehead (“all philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato”) plus\, in parallel to it\, the Madhyamika dialectic of Nagarjuna and the Sufi teachings of G.I.Gurdjieff. \n \nThe series of discussions we offer will center on that tradition leading\, hopefully\, to a new coherent cosmology symbolized by the enneagram. A bibliography of readings from Herakleitos\, Plato\, Diderot\, Hegel Lenin\, et al will be posted soon. \nShane Mages’s dissertation was on Marx’s theory of the tendential fall in the rate of profit (Columbia U. 1963). Shane taught economics and philosophy at Brooklyn Polytechnic U and Grand Valley State U. He was senior editor for social sciences at Collier’s Encyclopedia through 1994. Among Shane’s publications are a pamphlet “Velikovsky and his Critics;” articles on “Plato and the Catastrophist Tradition” and “Jeroboam and the Israelite Revolution” in KRONOS magazine; articles “Communism” and “Economic History of the USSR” in Collier’s Encyclopedia; and (unpublished still) “The Pilate Papers\,” an essay presenting a “Roman” view of the gospel story. At present he is working on a novel (“The Seducation of a Femtaur—a Bead Game”) set in the present and near future with a philosophical theme and elements of science fiction and magical realism. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/realistic-metaphysics-and-the-materialist-conception-of-history/2020-10-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Women Write Against Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Literary resistance during and after fascism being in command\nFive more weeks with\nSimone de Beauvoir\, Natalia Ginzburg\, Elfriede Jelinek and Anna Seghers\nReading and discussion with the Literature Studies Group of The MEP \nThe Blood Of Others • Simone de Beauvoir • 1945\nThe major theme of The Blood of Others is the relation between the free individual and ‘the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.’ Or as one of Beauvoir’s biographers puts it\, her ‘intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others\, perceived by the individual as objects\, were affected by his actions and decisions. Another theme of the novel\, though not unrelated to the first\, is the issue of resistance versus collaboration. Beauvoir makes it clear that to not actively resist fascism is to accept it. \nFamily Lexicon • Natalia Ginzburg • 1963\nFamily Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel\, yet everything is true. “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist\, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it]\,” Ginzburg tells us at the start. “The places\, events\, and people are all real.” The family described is all anti-fascist. The years depicted in this novel are the years of the 30s and 40s\, taking place in Turino during the years of Mussolini’s fascism. \nWonderful Wonderful Times • Elfriede Jelinek • 1980\nThe novel follows a group of four Viennese teens during the 1950s as they violently engage with the previous generation’s Post-World War II legacy. The novel does not use traditional chapter demarcations and focuses largely on the internal thoughts of the characters. Through the portrayal of the Austrian family Witkowski\, the reader is able to see the relation between daily fascism with the family and an undigested Austrian National Socialist history. The patriarch\, a former Nazi\, makes up for his loss of power and one leg by terrorizing his family and abusing his wife. \nTransit • Anna Seghers • 1944\nTransit is an existential\, political\, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom\,the vitality of storytelling\, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. The 27-year-old unnamed narrator has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. Along the way to Marseilles\, he meets one of his friends\, Paul. Paul then asks the narrator to deliver a letter to a writer named Weidel in Paris. When the narrator goes to deliver the letter\, he finds out that Weidel has committed suicide. The narrator also finds that Weidel left behind a suitcase full of letters and an unfinished manuscript for a novel. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our fourth summer of noir is currently underway. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics and labor organizing. \nDonations are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay \nplease write to info@marxedproject to get zoom log-in number if you would like to attend but cannot afford to pay \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-against-fascism/2020-10-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Multi-Month Pass: Now through Dec 31\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. \nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $150\, $200\, or $250 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between February 1 and May 31\, 2021. The curriculum has not been decided as of yet but this special price will apply for all that takes place from during the stated four-month period. Anyone can purchase this option and can attend all events until May 31\, even if purchased during December\, 2020 or January\, 2021. \nThe way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good for all events and classes that take place between now and May 31\, 2021. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension/. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/4-month-pass-january-21-through-may-20-2019-2020-08-29/2020-10-31/
LOCATION:All Venues
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
DESCRIPTION:UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE OF MARX’S DISCUSSIONS OF PRE-CAPITALIST ECONOMIC FORMATIONS\nA presentation and discussion with Radhika Desai\n \nMarx’s remarks on pre-capitalist economic formations\, whether in the Grundrisse or The German Ideology have given rise to a vast literature on the subject\, all seeking to apply what they take to be a historical materialist method to analysing diverse modes of production across time and space. While much of this effort has been erudite and enlightening\, in this lecture Radhika will propose that Marx’s purpose in these investigations and commentaries had nothing to do with either a stagist or a determinist view of history. Against these accusations\, often levelled at Marx and often put forth by the exertions of many a “Marxist”\, there are reasons to believe that Marx was going beyond the stagism and determinism of received accounts to something far more sophisticated and radical. \nRADHIKA DESAI is professor at the Department of Political Studies\, and Director\, Geopolitical Economy Research Group\, University of Manitoba\, Winnipeg\, Canada. She is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony\, Globalization and Empire (2013)\, Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed\, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994)\, a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month\, and editor or co-editor of Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century (2020) Revolutions (2020)\, Russia\, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism\, an issue of International ‘Critical Thought (2016)\, Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy (2015)\, Analytical Gains from Geopolitical Economy (2015)\, Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today’s Capitalism (2010) and Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009). Currently she is working on several books: The Coming Crash of the Dollar Creditorcracy (with Michael Hudson)\, Marx as a Monetary Theorist and The Making of the Indian Capitalist Class. \n  \nTickets are sliding scale. No one is refused admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for zoom code if you are unable to contribute.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pre-capitalist-economic-formations/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201101T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201101T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
CREATED:20200924T233518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T233518Z
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SUMMARY:Commodity Fetishism vs Capital Fetishism
DESCRIPTION:Marx’s Reflections and Marxist Interpretations\nSpecial Session with John Milios\nIn Marx’s analysis of the Capitalist Mode of Production and more precisely in his theory of value\, the key to decipher the capitalist political and ideological practices and structures is to be found. In this context\, many Marxists believed that the analysis of “commodity fetishism” in Section 1 of Volume 1 of Capital renders the basis for understanding ideological domination and political coercion under the capitalist rule. This presentation will argue that “commodity fetishism” is only a preliminary notion\, which allows Marx to arrive\, in subsequent sections of Capital\, at the concept of the “fetishism of capital”. \nIn this way we will attempt to investigate if and to what extent the notion of fetishism has itself attained a fetishist function within Marxism\, creating inversions\, transpositions and misinterpretations\, and what is actually its significance in the framework of the Marxist approach to ideology. Marxists who have based their analyses on fetishism have elaborated idealistic anthropologies (Lukacs)\, while materialists (Lenin) have ignored it. We will look at the two reasons for this. \nJohn Milios is Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens. An author of a wide selection of books including A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis: Demystifying Finance\, The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System\, and Rethinking Imperialism: A Study of Capitalist Rule\, among others. John also directs the quarterly journal of economic theory Theseis. John was the leading economic adviser with SYRIZA until March 2015. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay. write to info@marxedproject.org for more information if you need to pay less or cannot pay at all
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commodity-fetishism-vs-capital-fetishism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201102T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201102T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
CREATED:20200802T052040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201110T021457Z
UID:10006775-1604341800-1604349000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-11-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201103T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201103T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
CREATED:20200804T030106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-11-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201105T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
CREATED:20200823T210138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201212T203438Z
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SUMMARY:Women Write Against Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Literary resistance during and after fascism being in command\nFive more weeks with\nSimone de Beauvoir\, Natalia Ginzburg\, Elfriede Jelinek and Anna Seghers\nReading and discussion with the Literature Studies Group of The MEP \nThe Blood Of Others • Simone de Beauvoir • 1945\nThe major theme of The Blood of Others is the relation between the free individual and ‘the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.’ Or as one of Beauvoir’s biographers puts it\, her ‘intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others\, perceived by the individual as objects\, were affected by his actions and decisions. Another theme of the novel\, though not unrelated to the first\, is the issue of resistance versus collaboration. Beauvoir makes it clear that to not actively resist fascism is to accept it. \nFamily Lexicon • Natalia Ginzburg • 1963\nFamily Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel\, yet everything is true. “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist\, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it]\,” Ginzburg tells us at the start. “The places\, events\, and people are all real.” The family described is all anti-fascist. The years depicted in this novel are the years of the 30s and 40s\, taking place in Turino during the years of Mussolini’s fascism. \nWonderful Wonderful Times • Elfriede Jelinek • 1980\nThe novel follows a group of four Viennese teens during the 1950s as they violently engage with the previous generation’s Post-World War II legacy. The novel does not use traditional chapter demarcations and focuses largely on the internal thoughts of the characters. Through the portrayal of the Austrian family Witkowski\, the reader is able to see the relation between daily fascism with the family and an undigested Austrian National Socialist history. The patriarch\, a former Nazi\, makes up for his loss of power and one leg by terrorizing his family and abusing his wife. \nTransit • Anna Seghers • 1944\nTransit is an existential\, political\, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom\,the vitality of storytelling\, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. The 27-year-old unnamed narrator has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. Along the way to Marseilles\, he meets one of his friends\, Paul. Paul then asks the narrator to deliver a letter to a writer named Weidel in Paris. When the narrator goes to deliver the letter\, he finds out that Weidel has committed suicide. The narrator also finds that Weidel left behind a suitcase full of letters and an unfinished manuscript for a novel. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our fourth summer of noir is currently underway. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics and labor organizing. \nDonations are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay \nplease write to info@marxedproject to get zoom log-in number if you would like to attend but cannot afford to pay \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-against-fascism/2020-11-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201109T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201109T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
CREATED:20200802T052040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201110T021457Z
UID:10006776-1604946600-1604953800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-11-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/slaverySM.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201110T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201110T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
CREATED:20200804T030106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z
UID:10006788-1605033000-1605040200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-11-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
CREATED:20200823T210138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201212T203438Z
UID:10006799-1605207600-1605214800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Women Write Against Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Literary resistance during and after fascism being in command\nFive more weeks with\nSimone de Beauvoir\, Natalia Ginzburg\, Elfriede Jelinek and Anna Seghers\nReading and discussion with the Literature Studies Group of The MEP \nThe Blood Of Others • Simone de Beauvoir • 1945\nThe major theme of The Blood of Others is the relation between the free individual and ‘the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.’ Or as one of Beauvoir’s biographers puts it\, her ‘intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others\, perceived by the individual as objects\, were affected by his actions and decisions. Another theme of the novel\, though not unrelated to the first\, is the issue of resistance versus collaboration. Beauvoir makes it clear that to not actively resist fascism is to accept it. \nFamily Lexicon • Natalia Ginzburg • 1963\nFamily Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel\, yet everything is true. “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist\, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it]\,” Ginzburg tells us at the start. “The places\, events\, and people are all real.” The family described is all anti-fascist. The years depicted in this novel are the years of the 30s and 40s\, taking place in Turino during the years of Mussolini’s fascism. \nWonderful Wonderful Times • Elfriede Jelinek • 1980\nThe novel follows a group of four Viennese teens during the 1950s as they violently engage with the previous generation’s Post-World War II legacy. The novel does not use traditional chapter demarcations and focuses largely on the internal thoughts of the characters. Through the portrayal of the Austrian family Witkowski\, the reader is able to see the relation between daily fascism with the family and an undigested Austrian National Socialist history. The patriarch\, a former Nazi\, makes up for his loss of power and one leg by terrorizing his family and abusing his wife. \nTransit • Anna Seghers • 1944\nTransit is an existential\, political\, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom\,the vitality of storytelling\, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. The 27-year-old unnamed narrator has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. Along the way to Marseilles\, he meets one of his friends\, Paul. Paul then asks the narrator to deliver a letter to a writer named Weidel in Paris. When the narrator goes to deliver the letter\, he finds out that Weidel has committed suicide. The narrator also finds that Weidel left behind a suitcase full of letters and an unfinished manuscript for a novel. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our fourth summer of noir is currently underway. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics and labor organizing. \nDonations are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay \nplease write to info@marxedproject to get zoom log-in number if you would like to attend but cannot afford to pay \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-against-fascism/2020-11-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2ndSiteWomenAgainst.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201114T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201114T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
CREATED:20200907T165815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201212T203202Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:with Mary Boger\nCapital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nBook I: The Process of Production of Capital\nTHE NEW PRICING IS FOR THE REMAINING FOUR CLASSES. \nVolume I of Capital begins the scientific presentation of the laws of motion that underlie the developmental process that has led to the realities of our contemporary human condition. In only 200-300 years capitalist relations of re/production have absorbed all pre-capitalist societies into its circulation of commodities making all that exists\, whether real or imaginary\, means for investing money to make more money. Private ownership and control over our earth’s natural resources by the owners of capital and separation of the world’s population from any direct access to our conditions of life have reduced our human productive activity to a thing that is bought and sold at the bidding of capital. \nUncovering the how\, what and for whom our life processes are determined based on the logic of using money in order to make more money is a journey we need to take if we are to consciously situate ourselves within our given historical process as effective political/social/universal actors. Our concepts about what constitutes the economy\, the state\, politics\, the individual\, class\, and our relation to nature are filtered through the lens of the dominant ideology and the realities of the everyday life where buying and selling is the norm and vehicle by which we must adapt in order to survive. This is simply how the world works. The notion that a market economy based on money making more money is a natural state of affairs and is good for society as a whole is generally accepted—including by members of the working class. This has been especially so in the U.S.\, in spite of the fact that they must each individually sell their capacity to work to a particular capitalist in order to acquire their means of subsistence or face homelessness\, destitution or criminality. \nMarx’s scientific presentation of the laws of motion of capitalist development begins by analyzing the fundamental or elemental form which wealth takes in our society\, the commodity. Understanding this form leads us to the most basic law that grounds social reproduction in societies under the domination of capital\, the law of value. Therefore\, our first task will be to break through the appearance and reveal the social content of the commodity form. This begins the unraveling of the why and how of what we necessarily\, under the domination and exploitation of capital\, experience every day in our lives. \nIf you are joining this class after November 1\, you can write to info@marxedproject.org and request the PDFs for this Capital\, Vol. 1 class. There will be two more Volume 1 classes following this with the goal being to finish all of Volume One by mid-June. \nMARY BOGER\, political economist (MA) sociologist (PhD)\, and ethnographic researcher. MA Thesis: Marx on the Fetishism of Commodities. Dissertation: A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians Under Israeli Citizenship. A member of the original founders of the first School for Marxist Education (1975) and its continuation as the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum (1979-2014) and Mary is now engaged with the work of The MEP. She has been teaching Capital for many years to students of all ages and diverse occupations\, backgrounds and countries of origin. Throughout. Mary has actively participated in movement struggles and solidarity work with a broad range of liberation struggles. \n  \nAll tickets are sliding scale. As there have already been several sessions there is a fee reduction reflected on the site. No one denied participation for inability to pay. Email to info@marxedproject.org for the link to these sessions. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-3/2020-11-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Socialism
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AssemblyLibros3jpg.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201116T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201116T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
CREATED:20200802T052040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201110T021457Z
UID:10006777-1605551400-1605558600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-11-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201117T203000
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-11-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201118T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201118T203000
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SUMMARY:Social Reproduction and the City
DESCRIPTION:Welfare Reform\, Child Care\, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York \nwith author Simon Black\nThe transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform\, despite increases in child care funding\, there was little growth in New York’s unionized\, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services “on the cheap\,” relying on non-union home child care providers\, welfare rights organizations\, community legal clinics\, child care advocates\, low-income community groups\, activist mothers\, and labor unions organized to demand fair solutions to the child care crisis that addressed poor single mothers’ need for quality\, affordable child care as well as child care providers’ need for decent work and pay. Social Reproduction and the City tells this story\, linking welfare reform to feminist research and activism around the “crisis of care\,” social reproduction\, and the neoliberal city. \nAt a theoretical level\, Simon Black’s history of this era presents a feminist political economy of the urban welfare regime\, applying a social reproduction lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. Feminist political economy and feminist welfare state scholarship have not focused on the urban as a scale of analysis\, and critical approaches to urban neoliberalism often fail to address questions of social reproduction. To address these unexplored areas\, Black unpacks the urban as a contested site of welfare state restructuring and examines the escalating crisis in social reproduction. He lays bare the aftermath of the welfare-to-work agenda of the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations in New York City on child care and the resistance to policies that deepened race\, class\, and gender inequities. \nSimon Black is a professor of labour studies at Brock University in St. Catharines\, Ontario\, Canada. His research employs a Marxist-feminist approach to the study of work and labour in urban\, national\, and transnational contexts and explores how race\, class\, gender\, citizenship/migration shape social reproduction and the organization of paid and unpaid work. Black is the author of Social Reproduction and the City: Welfare Reform\, Child Care\, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York\, published in 2020 by the University of Georgia Press\, and co-produced It Takes A Riot: Race\, Rebellion\, Reform\, a documentary short film on police violence\, anti-Black racism\, and resistance. \nTwitter: @_SimonBlack \nThis event originates in NYC so please be aware of your time difference from the Eastern Standard time of 6:30 pm \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org if you cannot afford to pay so that you can receive the entrance code to the zoom room
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/social-reproduction-and-the-city/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201119T210000
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SUMMARY:Women Write Against Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Literary resistance during and after fascism being in command\nFive more weeks with\nSimone de Beauvoir\, Natalia Ginzburg\, Elfriede Jelinek and Anna Seghers\nReading and discussion with the Literature Studies Group of The MEP \nThe Blood Of Others • Simone de Beauvoir • 1945\nThe major theme of The Blood of Others is the relation between the free individual and ‘the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.’ Or as one of Beauvoir’s biographers puts it\, her ‘intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others\, perceived by the individual as objects\, were affected by his actions and decisions. Another theme of the novel\, though not unrelated to the first\, is the issue of resistance versus collaboration. Beauvoir makes it clear that to not actively resist fascism is to accept it. \nFamily Lexicon • Natalia Ginzburg • 1963\nFamily Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel\, yet everything is true. “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist\, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it]\,” Ginzburg tells us at the start. “The places\, events\, and people are all real.” The family described is all anti-fascist. The years depicted in this novel are the years of the 30s and 40s\, taking place in Turino during the years of Mussolini’s fascism. \nWonderful Wonderful Times • Elfriede Jelinek • 1980\nThe novel follows a group of four Viennese teens during the 1950s as they violently engage with the previous generation’s Post-World War II legacy. The novel does not use traditional chapter demarcations and focuses largely on the internal thoughts of the characters. Through the portrayal of the Austrian family Witkowski\, the reader is able to see the relation between daily fascism with the family and an undigested Austrian National Socialist history. The patriarch\, a former Nazi\, makes up for his loss of power and one leg by terrorizing his family and abusing his wife. \nTransit • Anna Seghers • 1944\nTransit is an existential\, political\, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom\,the vitality of storytelling\, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. The 27-year-old unnamed narrator has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. Along the way to Marseilles\, he meets one of his friends\, Paul. Paul then asks the narrator to deliver a letter to a writer named Weidel in Paris. When the narrator goes to deliver the letter\, he finds out that Weidel has committed suicide. The narrator also finds that Weidel left behind a suitcase full of letters and an unfinished manuscript for a novel. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our fourth summer of noir is currently underway. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics and labor organizing. \nDonations are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay \nplease write to info@marxedproject to get zoom log-in number if you would like to attend but cannot afford to pay \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-against-fascism/2020-11-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201121T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201121T173000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:with Mary Boger\nCapital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nBook I: The Process of Production of Capital\nTHE NEW PRICING IS FOR THE REMAINING FOUR CLASSES. \nVolume I of Capital begins the scientific presentation of the laws of motion that underlie the developmental process that has led to the realities of our contemporary human condition. In only 200-300 years capitalist relations of re/production have absorbed all pre-capitalist societies into its circulation of commodities making all that exists\, whether real or imaginary\, means for investing money to make more money. Private ownership and control over our earth’s natural resources by the owners of capital and separation of the world’s population from any direct access to our conditions of life have reduced our human productive activity to a thing that is bought and sold at the bidding of capital. \nUncovering the how\, what and for whom our life processes are determined based on the logic of using money in order to make more money is a journey we need to take if we are to consciously situate ourselves within our given historical process as effective political/social/universal actors. Our concepts about what constitutes the economy\, the state\, politics\, the individual\, class\, and our relation to nature are filtered through the lens of the dominant ideology and the realities of the everyday life where buying and selling is the norm and vehicle by which we must adapt in order to survive. This is simply how the world works. The notion that a market economy based on money making more money is a natural state of affairs and is good for society as a whole is generally accepted—including by members of the working class. This has been especially so in the U.S.\, in spite of the fact that they must each individually sell their capacity to work to a particular capitalist in order to acquire their means of subsistence or face homelessness\, destitution or criminality. \nMarx’s scientific presentation of the laws of motion of capitalist development begins by analyzing the fundamental or elemental form which wealth takes in our society\, the commodity. Understanding this form leads us to the most basic law that grounds social reproduction in societies under the domination of capital\, the law of value. Therefore\, our first task will be to break through the appearance and reveal the social content of the commodity form. This begins the unraveling of the why and how of what we necessarily\, under the domination and exploitation of capital\, experience every day in our lives. \nIf you are joining this class after November 1\, you can write to info@marxedproject.org and request the PDFs for this Capital\, Vol. 1 class. There will be two more Volume 1 classes following this with the goal being to finish all of Volume One by mid-June. \nMARY BOGER\, political economist (MA) sociologist (PhD)\, and ethnographic researcher. MA Thesis: Marx on the Fetishism of Commodities. Dissertation: A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians Under Israeli Citizenship. A member of the original founders of the first School for Marxist Education (1975) and its continuation as the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum (1979-2014) and Mary is now engaged with the work of The MEP. She has been teaching Capital for many years to students of all ages and diverse occupations\, backgrounds and countries of origin. Throughout. Mary has actively participated in movement struggles and solidarity work with a broad range of liberation struggles. \n  \nAll tickets are sliding scale. As there have already been several sessions there is a fee reduction reflected on the site. No one denied participation for inability to pay. Email to info@marxedproject.org for the link to these sessions. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-3/2020-11-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201123T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201123T203000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-11-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201124T203000
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-11-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201125T200000
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SUMMARY:Realistic Metaphysics and the Materialist Conception of History
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion series with Shane Mage (4 more weeks)\nplease note that the class is meeting from 6 pm to 8 pm \n“This cosmos\, the same for all\, was not made by any of gods or men. It always has been\, is\, and will be\, an ever-living fire kindling in measures and going out in measures” (Herakleitos of Ephesus\, fr. 29 [ed. Wheelwright]) \nThis group will meet as follows: October 21\, 28\, November 4\, 11 and 25.There will not be a session on November 18 as there is a MEP event that evening. \nIt can scarcely be doubted that the human civilization\, pervasively capitalist\, has entered a period of absolute crisis in the most literal sense: a condition that\, if not resolved by a radical return to survivability\, will quickly result in its death.  Of course\, Marxists and many other radicals had long seen the capitalist system (the present form of class society) as crisis-prone\, marked in its processes over centuries by an increasingly severe succession of wars and economic collapses. But the system had recovered from each crisis and resumed\, ever more powerfully\, its seeming industrial growth. The present crisis is different. Its dominant feature\, global heating (among symptoms of which are the COVID19 pandemic and the growing threat of atomic holocaust) is evidently integral to capitalist industrial growth . However\, in the Marxian view\, industrial growth is itself the manifestation of something much deeper: the contradictory form of productive labor and technological development in class society. “The growth of productive forces\,” is seen as the driving force in the evolution of humanity itself. As such\, it far transcends the few centuries of worldwide capitalism and comprises the whole history of the human species. We are\, declared Marx in an early text\, “species beings.” This should be taken to signify that while we\, like all animals\, carry our species history in our bodies and subconscious minds\, we also\, in our evolutionarily acquired capacity for structured symbolic communication\, preserve (and even can recover by proper research) important parts of that history in our explicit memories. Therefore the historical crisis of human society is necessarily and simultaneously the crisis of human consciousness. \nMarxists have always recognized the centrality of consciousness to the communist project. But marxism’s central preoccupation has been that of *class* consciousness. Marx spoke of the working class’s need to transform itself from a class *in itself* (en sich) into a class *for itself* (für sich). After two decades of revolutionary defeats and counter-revolutionary triumphs Trotsky described the situation as “the crisis of proletarian leadership.” \nBut these were prescriptions\, now plainly further from realization than ever. In describing the proletariat as the “universal class\,” Marx projected that by establishing its dictatorship (ie.\, radical democracy) in the proximate interest of all its members\, the proletariat begins the human historical project of complete transcendence of class society. The present crisis\, however\, demands that this concept of “universal” be deepened and enriched. The politics based on consciousness of proximate material interest must give way to the politics of a *planetary* consciousness. The final line of our anthem\, “l’Internationale sera le genre humain\,”  should now be taken literally. \nIf you and I are to be effective agents in the development of that consciousness we should be able to offer radical answers\, even though necessarily tentative and incomplete ones\, to two fundamental questions: How Did We Get Here? And (what Immanuel Kant considered perhaps the most important of questions): What Can We Hope For? \nThese are basic philosophical questions\, and to deal with them demands an adequate metaphysical basis\, an account developing from fundamental assumptions underlying cognition of our world\, its history\, its reality\, its prospects. Marxisms have approached this in terms of two words: “dialectics” and “materialism\,” but these terms are almost always used vaguely or–worse—polemically. Their application\, the materialist conception of history\, should be understood in terms of the long philosophical tradition starting in ancient Greece\, with the seemingly contradictory but actually complementary dialectics of Herakleitos (change) and Plato (structure)—the tradition whose varying protagonists include Plotinus\, Spinoza\, Diderot\, Hegel\, Marx\, and Whitehead (“all philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato”) plus\, in parallel to it\, the Madhyamika dialectic of Nagarjuna and the Sufi teachings of G.I.Gurdjieff. \n \nThe series of discussions we offer will center on that tradition leading\, hopefully\, to a new coherent cosmology symbolized by the enneagram. A bibliography of readings from Herakleitos\, Plato\, Diderot\, Hegel Lenin\, et al will be posted soon. \nShane Mages’s dissertation was on Marx’s theory of the tendential fall in the rate of profit (Columbia U. 1963). Shane taught economics and philosophy at Brooklyn Polytechnic U and Grand Valley State U. He was senior editor for social sciences at Collier’s Encyclopedia through 1994. Among Shane’s publications are a pamphlet “Velikovsky and his Critics;” articles on “Plato and the Catastrophist Tradition” and “Jeroboam and the Israelite Revolution” in KRONOS magazine; articles “Communism” and “Economic History of the USSR” in Collier’s Encyclopedia; and (unpublished still) “The Pilate Papers\,” an essay presenting a “Roman” view of the gospel story. At present he is working on a novel (“The Seducation of a Femtaur—a Bead Game”) set in the present and near future with a philosophical theme and elements of science fiction and magical realism. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/realistic-metaphysics-and-the-materialist-conception-of-history/2020-11-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201127T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
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SUMMARY:Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times
DESCRIPTION:with author Andy Merrifield\n \nKarl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer\, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today\, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson\, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks\, with collusions and conspiracies\, fake news and endless sleights of the economic and political hand. And yet\, contends Andy Merrifield\, as our modern lives become ever more mist-enveloped\, the works of Marx can help us penetrate the fog. \nIn Marx\, Dead and Alive—a book that begins and ends beside Marx’s recently violated London graveside—Merrifield makes a spirited case for a critical thinker who can still offer people a route toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with fascinating examples of literature and history\, from Shakespeare and Beckett\, to the Luddites and the Black Panthers\, Merrifield demonstrates how Marx can reveal our individual lives to us within a collective perspective—and within a historical continuum. Who we are now hinges on who we once were—and who we might become. This\, at a time when our value-system is undergoing core “post-truth” meltdown. \nAndy Merrifield is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books\, as well as numerous articles\, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review\, The Nation\, Harper’s Magazine\, New Left Review\, The Guardian\, Literary Hub\, Jacobin\, and Dissent. He is a prolific writer about urbanism\, political theory and literature\, with titles credited to him including Dialectical Urbanism (Monthly Review Press)\, The New Urban Question\, and Magical Marxism. He has also published three intellectual biographies\, of Henri Lefebvre\, Guy Debord\, and John Berger\, a popular existential travelogue\, The Wisdom of Donkeys\, a manifesto for liberated living\, The Amateur\, together with a memoir about cities and love\, inspired by Raymond Carver’s short stories\, called What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (and Love). \n  \nTickets are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you would like to attend you can obtain a zoom link by writing to info@marxedproject.org
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-dead-and-alive-reading-capital-in-precarious-times/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201128T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201128T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T041156
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:with Mary Boger\nCapital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nBook I: The Process of Production of Capital\nTHE NEW PRICING IS FOR THE REMAINING FOUR CLASSES. \nVolume I of Capital begins the scientific presentation of the laws of motion that underlie the developmental process that has led to the realities of our contemporary human condition. In only 200-300 years capitalist relations of re/production have absorbed all pre-capitalist societies into its circulation of commodities making all that exists\, whether real or imaginary\, means for investing money to make more money. Private ownership and control over our earth’s natural resources by the owners of capital and separation of the world’s population from any direct access to our conditions of life have reduced our human productive activity to a thing that is bought and sold at the bidding of capital. \nUncovering the how\, what and for whom our life processes are determined based on the logic of using money in order to make more money is a journey we need to take if we are to consciously situate ourselves within our given historical process as effective political/social/universal actors. Our concepts about what constitutes the economy\, the state\, politics\, the individual\, class\, and our relation to nature are filtered through the lens of the dominant ideology and the realities of the everyday life where buying and selling is the norm and vehicle by which we must adapt in order to survive. This is simply how the world works. The notion that a market economy based on money making more money is a natural state of affairs and is good for society as a whole is generally accepted—including by members of the working class. This has been especially so in the U.S.\, in spite of the fact that they must each individually sell their capacity to work to a particular capitalist in order to acquire their means of subsistence or face homelessness\, destitution or criminality. \nMarx’s scientific presentation of the laws of motion of capitalist development begins by analyzing the fundamental or elemental form which wealth takes in our society\, the commodity. Understanding this form leads us to the most basic law that grounds social reproduction in societies under the domination of capital\, the law of value. Therefore\, our first task will be to break through the appearance and reveal the social content of the commodity form. This begins the unraveling of the why and how of what we necessarily\, under the domination and exploitation of capital\, experience every day in our lives. \nIf you are joining this class after November 1\, you can write to info@marxedproject.org and request the PDFs for this Capital\, Vol. 1 class. There will be two more Volume 1 classes following this with the goal being to finish all of Volume One by mid-June. \nMARY BOGER\, political economist (MA) sociologist (PhD)\, and ethnographic researcher. MA Thesis: Marx on the Fetishism of Commodities. Dissertation: A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians Under Israeli Citizenship. A member of the original founders of the first School for Marxist Education (1975) and its continuation as the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum (1979-2014) and Mary is now engaged with the work of The MEP. She has been teaching Capital for many years to students of all ages and diverse occupations\, backgrounds and countries of origin. Throughout. Mary has actively participated in movement struggles and solidarity work with a broad range of liberation struggles. \n  \nAll tickets are sliding scale. As there have already been several sessions there is a fee reduction reflected on the site. No one denied participation for inability to pay. Email to info@marxedproject.org for the link to these sessions. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-3/2020-11-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-11-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-12-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:Realistic Metaphysics and the Materialist Conception of History
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion series with Shane Mage (4 more weeks)\nplease note that the class is meeting from 6 pm to 8 pm \n“This cosmos\, the same for all\, was not made by any of gods or men. It always has been\, is\, and will be\, an ever-living fire kindling in measures and going out in measures” (Herakleitos of Ephesus\, fr. 29 [ed. Wheelwright]) \nThis group will meet as follows: October 21\, 28\, November 4\, 11 and 25.There will not be a session on November 18 as there is a MEP event that evening. \nIt can scarcely be doubted that the human civilization\, pervasively capitalist\, has entered a period of absolute crisis in the most literal sense: a condition that\, if not resolved by a radical return to survivability\, will quickly result in its death.  Of course\, Marxists and many other radicals had long seen the capitalist system (the present form of class society) as crisis-prone\, marked in its processes over centuries by an increasingly severe succession of wars and economic collapses. But the system had recovered from each crisis and resumed\, ever more powerfully\, its seeming industrial growth. The present crisis is different. Its dominant feature\, global heating (among symptoms of which are the COVID19 pandemic and the growing threat of atomic holocaust) is evidently integral to capitalist industrial growth . However\, in the Marxian view\, industrial growth is itself the manifestation of something much deeper: the contradictory form of productive labor and technological development in class society. “The growth of productive forces\,” is seen as the driving force in the evolution of humanity itself. As such\, it far transcends the few centuries of worldwide capitalism and comprises the whole history of the human species. We are\, declared Marx in an early text\, “species beings.” This should be taken to signify that while we\, like all animals\, carry our species history in our bodies and subconscious minds\, we also\, in our evolutionarily acquired capacity for structured symbolic communication\, preserve (and even can recover by proper research) important parts of that history in our explicit memories. Therefore the historical crisis of human society is necessarily and simultaneously the crisis of human consciousness. \nMarxists have always recognized the centrality of consciousness to the communist project. But marxism’s central preoccupation has been that of *class* consciousness. Marx spoke of the working class’s need to transform itself from a class *in itself* (en sich) into a class *for itself* (für sich). After two decades of revolutionary defeats and counter-revolutionary triumphs Trotsky described the situation as “the crisis of proletarian leadership.” \nBut these were prescriptions\, now plainly further from realization than ever. In describing the proletariat as the “universal class\,” Marx projected that by establishing its dictatorship (ie.\, radical democracy) in the proximate interest of all its members\, the proletariat begins the human historical project of complete transcendence of class society. The present crisis\, however\, demands that this concept of “universal” be deepened and enriched. The politics based on consciousness of proximate material interest must give way to the politics of a *planetary* consciousness. The final line of our anthem\, “l’Internationale sera le genre humain\,”  should now be taken literally. \nIf you and I are to be effective agents in the development of that consciousness we should be able to offer radical answers\, even though necessarily tentative and incomplete ones\, to two fundamental questions: How Did We Get Here? And (what Immanuel Kant considered perhaps the most important of questions): What Can We Hope For? \nThese are basic philosophical questions\, and to deal with them demands an adequate metaphysical basis\, an account developing from fundamental assumptions underlying cognition of our world\, its history\, its reality\, its prospects. Marxisms have approached this in terms of two words: “dialectics” and “materialism\,” but these terms are almost always used vaguely or–worse—polemically. Their application\, the materialist conception of history\, should be understood in terms of the long philosophical tradition starting in ancient Greece\, with the seemingly contradictory but actually complementary dialectics of Herakleitos (change) and Plato (structure)—the tradition whose varying protagonists include Plotinus\, Spinoza\, Diderot\, Hegel\, Marx\, and Whitehead (“all philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato”) plus\, in parallel to it\, the Madhyamika dialectic of Nagarjuna and the Sufi teachings of G.I.Gurdjieff. \n \nThe series of discussions we offer will center on that tradition leading\, hopefully\, to a new coherent cosmology symbolized by the enneagram. A bibliography of readings from Herakleitos\, Plato\, Diderot\, Hegel Lenin\, et al will be posted soon. \nShane Mages’s dissertation was on Marx’s theory of the tendential fall in the rate of profit (Columbia U. 1963). Shane taught economics and philosophy at Brooklyn Polytechnic U and Grand Valley State U. He was senior editor for social sciences at Collier’s Encyclopedia through 1994. Among Shane’s publications are a pamphlet “Velikovsky and his Critics;” articles on “Plato and the Catastrophist Tradition” and “Jeroboam and the Israelite Revolution” in KRONOS magazine; articles “Communism” and “Economic History of the USSR” in Collier’s Encyclopedia; and (unpublished still) “The Pilate Papers\,” an essay presenting a “Roman” view of the gospel story. At present he is working on a novel (“The Seducation of a Femtaur—a Bead Game”) set in the present and near future with a philosophical theme and elements of science fiction and magical realism. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/realistic-metaphysics-and-the-materialist-conception-of-history/2020-12-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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